PORTRAIT RETOUCHING PHOTO WORKSHOP

By Helene DeLillo

Digital retouching using Adobe Photoshop is an integral part of the entertainment and portrait photography business. Helene will reveal the professional tricks-of-the-trade. Her book will guide readers through hands on step-by-step portrait retouching exercises so that they can make their clients look their best while making the image look un-retouched! Some of the topics will include: airbrushing, cloning, balancing skin tones/color corrections, brightening eyes, distortion, as well as techniques for enhancing facial expressions. The workflow process from input to professional quality output will also be covered. This book is about empowering you to retouch your portraits with great ease. Helene will guide you through real world projects and insight into the retouching / digital transformation process. Her philosophy in retouching portraits is about making your subjects look great without making the portrait look like it's been retouched. In order to do this, you will learn the art of retouching (the how when and why) not just the tools. Where do I start when evaluating an image? What do I do with the droopy eye? What about that double or triple chin? Do I use clone or healing brush or liquefy? You will learn not only the how but also and most importantly the why and when to retouch. The various step by step projects will empower you to discover the how to enhance you subjects best features and minimize their little imperfections. Best of most times they won't even notice you've changed the images. Topics Will include: Eye glasses reflections; bucked teeth, missing teÐ removing braces; crooked eye - rebuilding eye; eye lashes; fixing teeth - whiter brighter - catch lights; smi= nose; good complexions - building great skin; correcting focus- illusions; toning down hot spots - highlights; lightening shadows; retouching older peop= double chins; necks; correcting lip lines - making lip smaller or bigger; hands & nails; double checking your work; color casts on portraits; filters; color matching skin on different parts of the bodies; shading - shadows - highlights.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470171138
• ISBN13: 9780470171134
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.